Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1891 — He Was a "Feelin;" Man. [ARTICLE]

He Was a "Feelin;" Man.

After a railroad aocident in a New England State, a poor farmer’s wife was taken out, bleeding and unconscious. The doctor and a kind woman were working over her when her husband came in and stood a moment, looking on in disturbed silence. Tfi* cheeks were drawn in, his eyebrows lifted, his hands in his pockets. Presently, with some effort, he cleared his throat to speak, and, as the doctor looked up, he asked: “Ye didn’t see a new tin dipper lyin’ round where ye picked her up, did ye?” He got no answer from the indignant doctor, and presently strayed out again in search of his dipper. Meanwhile, his wife opened her eyes and at once asked for her husband. “He’s safe,” said the doctor, shortly. She felt his curt tone, and, faint as 6he was, She divined what it meant. “He’s a dreadful feelin* man,” she said, “but he don’t never say much!”